SHA1 crypto algorithm underpinning Internet security could fall by 2018
A widely used cryptographic algorithm used to secure sensitive websites, software, and corporate servers is weak enough that well-financed criminals could crack it in the next six years, a cryptographer said.
The prediction about the SHA1 algorithm, posted recently to a hash function mailing list sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is based on calculations its author and fellow cryptographers admit are rough. The back-of-the-envelope math also incorporates several assumptions that are by no means certain. At the same time, the ability to carry out a reliable “collision attack” on SHA1 would have catastrophic effects on the security of the Internet.
» via ars technica
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